CJ Tashi Namgyal draws attention to the problems with mobile telecommunications in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. He complains about the lack of proper mobile tower facility in the area. ...
01:15 PM, May 20, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday expressed confidence that the present uncertainty in the telecom sector will be resolved and spectrum will be auctioned. "For the present there is lot of uncertainty about auction but I am sure that this uncertainty will be resolved and spectrum will be auctioned. If the spectrum is auctioned we should get the money," Chidambaram said. ...
01:24 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Vodafone, which has not applied for taking part in spectrum auction in March, on Tuesday said the reserve price set is too high and the company cannot afford to pay in India where there is uncertainty about airwaves and revenues are low. ...
04:06 AM, Feb 27, 2013
The CBI has registered a case against Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications Ltd for allegedly violating norms set down by the telecom department. The CBI claims it found that the companies had an arrangement with Singapore Telecom for international call facilities. ...
11:32 PM, Feb 24, 2013
The CBI has registered a case in a Delhi court against Bharti Airtel Ltd, Tata Communication Ltd and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd for allegedly causing a loss of nearly Rs 48 crore to the government since 2004 by illegally providing international long distance (ILD) services. ...
03:45 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Industry body ISPAI today said that rates of internet and broadband services may go up under new licenses framework due to high entry fee proposed by Department of Telecommunications (DoT). ...
11:50 AM, Feb 18, 2013
The list of URLs to be blocked also includes news reports from Firstpost, Outlook, Times of India, Rediff, Indian Express and Economic Times. ...
10:06 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed curative petitions of several telecom firms for re-examination of its verdict cancelling 122 2G spectrum licences allocated during tenure of former telecom minister A Raja. ...
07:34 PM, Feb 14, 2013
An asteroid due to whizz past the Earth this week could take out vital telecommunications satellites, scientists warn. They are sure there is no chance of the 45.7 metre wide space rock hitting the planet. ...
10:54 AM, Feb 12, 2013
The H.265 format, or codec, would require just half the amount of data needed by its predecessor, H.264. ...
06:34 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Mumbai/New Delhi: Bharti Infratel Ltd, the telecommunications tower arm of India's Bharti Airtel Ltd, is likely to launch its initial public offering to raise up to $900 million (approx Rs 4,993 crore) on December 10, sources said, in what will be the country's biggest IPO in two years. The offer to sell a 10 per cent stake in Bharti Infratel could raise $800 million to $900 million, the sources said,...
12:56 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Geneva: The world now has nearly as many mobile phone subscriptions as inhabitants. The UN telecom agency says there were about 6 billion subscriptions by the end of 2011 - roughly one for 86 of every 100 people. In a report Thursday, the International Telecommunication Union said China alone accounted for 1 billion subscriptions, and India is expected to hit the 1-billion mark this year. The Geneva-based agency says 2.3...
01:00 PM, Oct 12, 2012
A few SMS messages, a couple of inflammatory photos. They triggered off the largest internal exodus in India since partition. We're talking about the north ...
05:49 PM, Oct 03, 2012
A copy of a note by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to mobile phone manufacturers, which was reviewed by Mint, gives the manufacturers a year more before their handsets that are not in line with the new radiation norms are phased out. This is the latest in an ongoing attempt by the department to make mobile handset manufacturers conform to the new radiation norms. So far, the September 1 deadline...
02:06 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Environment Ministry feels radiation emitted by mobile towers has ill effects on wildlife, especially birds and bees, and has asked the Department of Telecommunication not to permit such structures within one-km radius of each other. In an advisory, the Ministry has said that there is an "urgent need" to refine the Indian standard on safe limits of exposure to electro-magnetic radiations (EMR). Till it is reformed, "a precautionary...
05:42 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications will move the Supreme Court to push the deadline for 2G auction to November. The Supreme Court had earlier set an August 31 deadline. The decision to move court was taken in the EGoM headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday. "Auctioneer has given us schedule...we will approach the Supreme Court to place before them the fact what government has done. Also, place...
01:28 PM, Aug 07, 2012
The IP&TASFS was formed in the year of 1972 and the first batch was recruited in 1974. It is one of the Group a Central Civil Service of India. The cadre controlling authority for IP&TASFS is Member Finance, Telecom Commission of India. The selected candidates go through a number of training sessions in different institutes. i. Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Missouri: 4 month foundation course. ii....
06:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Chennai: The 2G auction should fetch a "reasonable market price" for the spectrum, Minister of State for IT and Telecommunications Sachin Pilot on Monday said. "Spectrum as a natural resources is the property of people of India. We must through the auctions, get reasonable market price for that commodity", he said told reporters here. Pilot added that the reconstituted empowered group of ministers (EGoM), headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram,...
10:45 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) looking into the 3G roaming mobile services on Tuesday gave a split verdict in the case with its chairman directing the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to send out fresh notices to telecom operators while another judge ruling that the pact formed between telecom majors on 3G must be ended. Leading telecos like Bharti, Vodafone and Idea had entered into an...
11:58 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Beijing: China has successfully launched telecommunication satellite "ChinaSat 2A" to boost broadcasting and multimedia transmission. A Long March-3B carrier rocket sent the satellite into the orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Centre yesterday. The satellite, developed by China Academy of Space Technology, will be used to meet the demands for China's radio and TV broadcasting and broadband multimedia transmissions, China Satellite Communications Co Ltd said. The launch marked the...
10:14 AM, May 27, 2012
